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THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 8:03 pm
by marko69
What an excellent season of the Don Cup Tractor Boys Caption Competition, really has been a great effort by everyone. Well, everyone who took part anyway! That final league table will be getting posted here tomorrow afternoon and the winner will be getting announced.

For tonight though, we have the "caption of the season" award. Sorry there is no prize for this, probably should be as the top three here are hilarious.

In 3rd place, from the Reading preview, February 7th.

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WATERSHIP DOWN: Us....., lose here? Yeah right!

In 2nd place, from the Wigan preview, December 21st.

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PATTHEGIMP: Mick makes subtle bid for the Wigan job.

And in 1st place, the winning caption of the season from the Aston Villa preview, February 11th.

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BLUEBLOOD: Scampi flavoured Nik Naks, or is that the wife's......, ?

Well done on that one there, Blueblood, certainly got a good, proper LOL out of that one.

Still waiting on a few more votes coming in from people for your Forest attempts but the final league table will be posted tomorrow afternoon. Cheers

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 4:49 pm
by marko69
Scoring for final week of the competition.

Nicscreamer 5pts
Derick 4pts
Tangfastic & ipswichtownNo1 3pts
Gold&Black 2pts.

FINAL LEAGUE TABLE 2016/17



DerickIpsw 77
Nicscreamer 75
Blueblood 74
Gold&Black 72
Herforder 70
Frosty 61
Tangfastic 61
Ando 59
Bluemike 57
Watership Down 36
Number 9 32
IpswichtownNo1 28
Shed on Tour 28
Quasar 28
Patthegimp 17
Ashfordblue 11
Barmy Billy 9
Ohiotractorboy 7
Supershred 6
LoudNProud 6
Longjohn 1
Foxy Lady 1
ItfcTrev76 1

CONGRATULATIONS TO --------->>>> DERICK_IPSW on winning this years title.

8 of those guys in Oz are ENGLISH!!! They appreciated the Aussies with no humour gag. Is it a cricket thing? Or are they just total w*nkers, Frosty?! ANYWAY, your name will be etched onto the trophy before the new season kicks off, Derick and again, very well done indeed.

Very unlucky indeed to Nicscreamer who I must say, had a decent amount of 5 and 4 point answers in the final couple months, the Forest caption itself very funny indeed.

But again, thanks to all who took part, brightened up many a weekend with the wit and humour. Until next season, Cheers y'all.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:05 pm
by BLUEBLOOD
Well Done Derick maybe you can change your avatar to a happy face now :mrgreen: :wink:
Roll on next season.
Great fun Marko thanks for doing it again.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:36 pm
by Watership Down
Thanks for the fun during a so so season Marko... enjoy the summer.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:37 pm
by Frosty
Can't express my thanks enough to Marko for not only reintroducing this competition last season, but also the many hours put in to run it.

Cheers buddy

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:16 pm
by Bluemike
Well Done Derick and Marko too for making it a great competition.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:16 pm
by derick_ipsw
BLUEBLOOD wrote:Well Done Derick maybe you can change your avatar to a happy face now :mrgreen: :wink:
Roll on next season.
Great fun Marko thanks for doing it again.
Thanks BLUEBLOOD. That is my happy face. :wink:

Also thanks to you Marko for the time and effort you put into this. Reading these captions has helped bring some joy to the sh*te season.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:19 pm
by derick_ipsw
bluemike wrote:Well Done Derick and Marko too for making it a great competition.
Cheers Mike.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 7:31 am
by marko69
Thanks guys, I really enjoy the caption comp. Having a brain (yes, there is one up there somewhere) that's constantly wired to attempt to see the stupidity and funny side in all situations, it makes it very easy indeed.
Unlike Jamma and bluemikes jobs, (and sometimes Herforder) opening and closing thoughts must be very tough indeed, but they do it with apparent ease. I know I couldn't do it. Especially after poor performance. If I done it:
Opening thoughts:
Well. Last week was sh*t innit?!
Final thoughts:
Better be better than last weeks sh*t.
They'd be very small, extremely summarised previews.

Speaking of Herforder........ what happened to you dude for the Forest caption? You were in the Top 5?

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 9:53 am
by nicscreamer
Well done Derek.

I have enjoyed every week of it, thanks for hosting Marko!

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 10:19 pm
by goldandblack
Brilliant comp and a big well done to derick_ipsw.........yet another great part of this fantastic site ,and run so well by Marco.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 4:38 pm
by Ohiotractorboy
Well done marko, and congrats to Derek!

Good fun reading the captions, I have some problems with it since I usually have no idea who we are looking at :blush:

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 5:50 pm
by derick_ipsw
Ohiotractorboy wrote:Well done marko, and congrats to Derek!

Good fun reading the captions, I have some problems with it since I usually have no idea who we are looking at :blush:
That's worth 5pts straight away. :wink: Thanks very much.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 1:04 am
by Ando
Well done Derick and thanks to marko for running it.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 11:33 am
by marko69
And not a bad attempt at defending the title, Ando. I'm sure you'll be back next season with your superb humour.

Still scratching my head over Herforder. Wtf happened? Hope all is well with him.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 6:08 pm
by Quasar
ty and well done all

was fun

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:32 pm
by marko69
An hour and a half left of the day....... better say Happy Birf'day to Deeko Boy and to say the Don Cup is heading into the engravers tomorrow lunch time. :D

Although I'm doubting you'll see this, Derick...... my pm congratulating you on the win is still sitting in the outbox ya bawbag! :lol:

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:51 am
by derick_ipsw
marko69 wrote:An hour and a half left of the day....... better say Happy Birf'day to Deeko Boy and to say the Don Cup is heading into the engravers tomorrow lunch time. :D

Although I'm doubting you'll see this, Derick...... my pm congratulating you on the win is still sitting in the outbox ya bawbag! :lol:
Cheers Marko had few as you do .54 nearly as old as MM playing style.. Read the message will be nice to see the photo. Looking forward to the the DON cup this season. Thanks again mate.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:24 am
by patthegimp
Thanks Marko. Appreciate all the effort you put in. Expect major investigation in to why I didnt win!!
Seriously have a great summer to everyone.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:32 pm
by marko69
Very busy in Edinburgh today due to a fire in one of the main streets, Broughton Road, so traffic jammed en route to the Easter Road engravers. From the point of reaching the jam until reaching the shop was over an hour. And then discovered it's closed until July 12th!!!
FOR F U C K SAKE!!!! An AAAARGH moment!

On a low carb diet at the moment, but FK it, went into a nearby Costa and got an Apple Danish and cappuccino. Yep, FK IT!!

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:10 pm
by marko69
Managed to get into the shop and pick up the cup. Tried to get a picture onto here but its just not allowing it. I have since emailed it to Jamma123 and hopefully he can post the picture very soon. Its looking very good indeed.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 5:58 pm
by Jamma123
It is indeed looking very good. Congratulations Derick, and well done Marko for all your efforts in making the Don Cup such a popular and successful competition.

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Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:03 pm
by marko69
Aw, awesome, Jamma…….., thanks very much for that. Cheers.

A similar turn out for the forthcoming season would be decent, but more obviously welcome. :D

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:13 pm
by Bluemike
Hey that's fab, very well done Marko and again congrats to Derick the current holder.

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:04 am
by Frosty
its a fantastic example of yet another competition on the forum I have never won! :-)

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:19 am
by derick_ipsw
Thank you Marko and Jamma. That looks good. I will try and defend it this season. :)

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:05 pm
by BLUEBLOOD
Frosty wrote:its a fantastic example of yet another competition on the forum I have never won! :-)
Some things never change . :wink:
You must be lucky in love tho.... :D Mate!
Ask the missus she will tell you...

Re: THE DON CUP 2016/17

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:03 pm
by Frosty
BLUEBLOOD wrote:
Frosty wrote:its a fantastic example of yet another competition on the forum I have never won! :-)
Some things never change . :wink:
You must be lucky in love tho.... :D Mate!
Ask the missus she will tell you...

Oi ..... I sense a declaration of war!

I'll have you know that the missus has allowed me to pay Mike and Andy even more coin this season so I can remain competitive in the PL! ....... She won't have me being a loser. :D